The weekend is over, and the blight of Daylight Savings Time has now fully hit the Western world. I have never understood the point of this particularly stupid idea, which robs us all of an hour of badly-needed sleep, and ruins the natural progression of the seasons.
As C. S. Lewis once wrote to his brother, venting his frustrations over this ridiculous obsession with, essentially, matching a terrible German idea:
Plague on this nonsense of putting [forward]* the clock which has docked me of an hourโs sleep and which for the next few weeks will give me darkness at shaving and dressing time when I want light, and light after tea when it is an impertinence.
Still and all, as depressing as the whole prospect of Monday is, this is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Smelter exists. And we kick the week off with something designed to put a smile on our faces.
The legendary RUSH are back in action, years after the untimely and very tragic death of The Professor on the Drums, the one and only Neil Peart. They found a new drummer with a unique and heavy-hitting style, Annika Nilles, and they performed live for CBC in Canuckistan.
I have to say, it was a magical moment which put a HUGE smile on my face:
#BasedTucker is Based
Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain gets us off to a quick start for the week:
Mind-Expanding Drugs
There is quite a lot of nonsense in that video above, about how the Spartans were a bunch of mindlessly obedient automatons. I got very annoyed with that and left the following comment:
You make it sound as if the Spartans simply bred mindless automatons, immune to pain and unable to think for themselves. This is nonsense. The very same Plutarch that you quote, points out that Spartans trained hard in the art of rhetoric, and were known for their wit. Where do you suppose the adjective, “Laconic”, comes from? It derives from the very Spartan way of coming up with pithy, pointed remarks that disarmed opponents verbally. The most memorable quotes from the film, 300, apparently were real. We all know them: “So much the better, for then we shall fight in the shade”. “Come and get them!”. “Ready your breakfasts, and eat hearty, for tonight, we dine in Hades!” The men who uttered these quotes, were the product of a highly refined – and, yes, brutal – system of training and education that emphasised brains as well as brawn.
Death Smiles At Us All…
Culture Beats
Warriors of Faith
Manly Men of Manliness
Bad Medicine
Veteransโ Day
Judgeโs Ruling
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOOOZHUN!!!
ะะพะฒัะน-ะฆะฐัั ะัะธะบะฐะทัะฒะฐะตั
ะัะพัะตััะพั ะัะพะฒะบะธะฝ ะฃัะธั
ะะตะด ะกะฒะฐัะปะธะฒัะน ะะพะฒะพัะธั!
ะัะดั ะกัะฐั ะะฑัััะฝัะตั
ะ ัััะบะธะต ะััะถะธะต
ะ ัััะบะฐั ะะธะทะฝั
Polonium
Timeo Danaos Et Donna Ferentesโฆ
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Reading Too Much Into Things
Linkage is good for you:
- Fyodor Lukyanov describes Iran as a โno-fail testโ for the FUSA โ and, unfortunately, it IS failing;
- Dmitryi Trenin exposes the illusion behind NATO, which is really just a vehicle for American interests, and nothing more;
- Sergey Poletayev points out the reasons for the failure of the American doctrine of shock and awe against the Persians โ who, unlike previous American enemies, can fight back;
- Marina Akhmedova asks some hard and necessary questions about how Spain allowed the self-deletion of a young lady who went through unspeakable trauma;
- Matthieu Buge is not amused by the new Limey law permitting abortion all the way very nearly up to birth;
- Ladislav Zemรกnek exposes NATOโs attempts to gang-rape Serbia all over again, nearly 27 years after their first go-round;
- Farhad Ibragimov explains why Iran is currently holding its own, without resorting to help from its allies in the region;
- Murad Sadygadze thinks the UAE can recover its reputation as the OnlyFools capital and real-estate destination of the Middle East after the war โ I disagree, personally;
- Tarik Cyril Amar looks at what is at stake with the elections in Hungary, which are just about to take place in the next week or two;
- The Russians are actively reconsidering their energy export policy in light of Operation: AIPAC F***-UP, and will deprioritise Europe as a destination;
- The Ukrainian economy is collapsing rapidly under the combined weight of demographic, military, financial, and political pressures;
- The Limey Smellygraph got caught saying nice things about Christians and Muslims working together in Lebanon, and had to take that down;
- Scientists recently recorded a mega-tsunami that raged through a fjord in Greenland for NINE DAYS โ and, amazingly, Drumpf wasnโt responsible for it;
- Global Climate Anthropogenic Change Warming Cooling Manbearpig is a nonsense theory, as the latest ice core data has conclusively shown;
- OnePlus has launched its 15T handset โ at the same time that it seems to be effectively unwinding its operations outside of China;
- The Soviet-era nuclear submarine Komsomolets sank in the Norwegian Sea many years ago, and thankfully, there is not much radioactive material leaking from it;
- The rise, fall, rise, and potential fall again of Microslop is a pretty fascinating story that is well worth reading through, now that the company has turned 50;
- The Kiev-class cruiser-slash-aircraft-carrier was not a great idea, either on paper or in execution, and the Soviets found out very quickly why;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- German boffins have discovered that the human brain has its own navigation system โ presumably the one used by women is rather different than the one used by men;
- Bali is a lovely place โ provided you go to the nicest bits, while for everyone else, it can be kind of miserable, as a viral video from a Frenchist points out;
- HARD MAFFS is hard even for those who do it for a job, which does not surprise me in the least;
- An American went to China to study, and found it cheaper and better, by far, than studying in the FUSA;
- Indigenous identity wars are getting quite heated over there in Canuckistan, with people accusing each other of faking and making things up with respect to ethnicity;
- Perhaps surprisingly, the biggest tourist trap in the world turns out to be Chicago, of all places โ who would have thought that title applies to one of the most dangerous cities in America?;
- Here we go again, again โ there is YET ANOTHER supposed โbat coronavirusโ that could infect humans;
- Justine โCastroโs Bastardโ Truvada seems to be enjoying his fooling around with Katy Perry โ he DOES know who was in that big olโ box before him, right?;
- Nearly 1.2 million people got European citizenship in 2024, which should give you some idea of just how bad the illegal immigration problem is over there;
- When they are not going to war with everyone, the Israelis are actually an innovative bunch โ one of their startups has secured a lot of funding to make personal-scale aircraft;
HALO Nation
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!
Big Boyz Toyz
Oh No! Anywayโฆ
Comedy Hour
Meme Warfare
We begin with some dank memes from The Male Brain:
And now, as LRFotS RobertW likes to say:
Animal Planet
Pawsitivity
Golden Doofuses
German Shedders
Derpskies
Maligators
BAFFTime
Cattitude
Cat Against Humanity
Murder Machines
Seal of Approval
Calamari
Palate Cleansers
Axe Me Anything
Arrow to the Knee
Knives Out
Woodshop
Forgemaster
Drumlines
Guitar Heroics
MOAR DAKKA!!!
Mambo Italiano
Lunch Break
Sammiches
Omakase
DORINKU!!!
Special Brew
Engine-ear
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Real Men Watch REAL Sports
REPS FOR JESUS!!!
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollinโ…
JUST BLEED!!!
Facefisted
Bullshido Breakdown
Gymtardery
Livinโ in the Land of the Metal Gods
This week we feature British band SELLSWORD:
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Thot Shots
And finally, here are your Instathots to get the week off to a suitably pneumatic start. Happy Monday, all.
1 Comment
Trump should bomb Netanyahu and declare victory.
having, you know, eliminated BOTH of the primary antagonists in the theater he could still maintain a fig leaf of being the “Peace President”.